Luck Matters
The money I made in my marketing services company had nothing to do with my father’s money, nor his connections. So, does that mean luck was not a factor?
Hardly. I was adopted shortly after my five-month birthday by two of the finest people on the planet, who sacrificed greatly to put me through a terrific private school in Philadelphia, and a fabulous private college in Connecticut.
At this point, I ask the reader to consider, as I do frequently, how terribly wrong this could have gone, even setting aside the fact that my biologic mother could have aborted an unwanted pregnancy.
Not all adopting parents are intelligent, prosperous, dedicated to their kids’ education, generous, and sober.
IMO, successful businesspeople who discount their luck are kidding themselves.
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I seldom watch political speeches, regardless of who’s talking, but I did catch a few minutes of Biden’s State of the Union.
…Listen very closely: no one cares.
I have a great deal of respect for Maher’s talent, and usually for his ideas as well, but I simply don’t get his presentation in the video below. No one, woke or otherwise, is trying to “re-invent the very nature of human beings.”
Sarah Huckabee Sanders is as good a pick as any to deliver the Republicans’ rebuttal following Biden’s speech this evening. As Trump’s press secretary, she garnered vast experience spinning baldfaced lies into statements that tens of millions of people apparently found credible. Following that, she became the governor of one of the least educated, most backwards states in the union, addressing voters who can’t get enough of her anti-science and racist rhetoric.
Don’t expect “manufactured grievances” to cease being a feature of U.S. politics as long as there are voters stupid enough to believe in their merits.
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Good point here, but I look at this slightly differently.
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